The teachers of the 5 Schools in Chennai joined the workshop physically and the remaining schools joined online through google meet application.

The Resource Person for the session, Dr. V. Sudha Malini, Principal, RMK Sr. Sec. School, Thiruverkadu and an academic leader with a diverse and innovative approach empowered the teachers with her ideas on how to captivate the students’ attention.  

The RP started her session on the topic ‘Science is the way of life’. She raised the questions as ‘Now-a-days, in what ways do the children get distracted and the problems faced by the teachers in the class?’  The teachers gave various answers, such as distraction by mobile, multimedia, indiscipline etc.,

She said that all these problems could be sort out once they get the interest in the classroom session by the activities and projects which should be done by the children with the teacher’s guidance.  She also differentiated activity and real-life experiences.

The 40 teachers present at Chennai was split into groups of 6 members and told them to write about their favourite scientists, their inventions and the good qualities of the scientists that the teachers would appreciate.

The teachers were given time to discuss about it and each teacher was allowed to speak about the scientist selected by them.  The renowned scientists Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Sir Issac Newton, Marie Curie, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, etc, were selected and their qualities and their discoveries were spoken about. The R.P.  suggested that these qualities should be shared by the teachers with the students to create inspire.

This was followed by the PowerPoint presentation, through which the ways to relate the topic (lesson) to the children were elaborated.